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by aristus 16y ago
You may or may not know of a famous post declaring the death of FreeBSD, which was abstracted to cover several other technologies. [If not, google for "netcraft confirms it".] I personally would not bother. I played with XSLT and its predec
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by aristus 16y ago
Man, it's bad enough all the gringos wanted to learn Salsa last year and Tango this year. Now they are going to bring their kids? ;) On a serious note: isn't diagnosis something that varies across the attitudes of the doctors? A psychologis
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by aristus 16y ago
Point 6 is inaccurate. As far as I know it's not a "Connection" in way they are claiming. It's a search on recent posts that appear in the "related posts" boxes. The "FBI" example is nice and scary, but the same holds true for Puppies and R
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by aristus 16y ago
You are correct. The sixth thing in this article is inaccurate.
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by aristus 16y ago
I also remember Gabocorp. In the hands of a truly talented person anything is possible.
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by aristus 17y ago
There is also Mao, which halts but is just as fun. The first rule of Mao is that you don't talk about the rules of Mao. And the winner gets to add a new rule.
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by aristus 17y ago
In the real world you have stereo hearing and the ability to dart your eyes. This video has a similar feeling to a bad dream where Bad Stuff is happening but you can't move quickly enough.
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by aristus 17y ago
HTML started out as a simple language for formatting research papers. It is a tree of text nodes and elements, ie section 1, table 3. It was not and is not intended to be a 2D anything. Over the last 20 years many people have layered on thi
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JavaScript Justifies Everything (well, text anyway)(carlos.bueno.org)
18 points by aristus 17y ago|9 comments
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by aristus 17y ago
I hear you, but I think it's more protest/irony than information. Page-breaking is a cheap trick to inflate page views, borne of the same low cunning that gives us items priced at $2.98 instead of $3. When I'm reading HN on a phone or other
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by aristus 17y ago
How exactly did he lose it? The 45-day PayPal chargeback window is still open.
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by aristus 17y ago
What's the update? This is from 12 days ago. I ordered one near the beginning of April. So far I've received one (1) generic response to my enquiries. So we'll see, I guess.
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by aristus 17y ago
It's more of a chronic problem than a sitedown problem. You might be surprised how crappy some hosts and resolvers are. Using dual 3rd-party DNS does give you one very good advantage in acute situations, though. When your host goes down har
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by aristus 17y ago
Ha, Brasil is first. A friend of mine was the admin contact for the .br domain for a large internet company. When he went back to Brazil on a visit, he was summoned to the police station for questioning (!!) over some stolen credit cards th
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by aristus 17y ago
whois archivd.com Domain servers in listed order: NS1.WORLDWIDEDNS.NET DNS0.MTGSY.COM NS2.WORLDWIDEDNS.NET DNS1.NAME-S.NET NS3.WORLDWIDEDNS.NET DNS3.MTGSY.COM The only other smallbiz-grade se
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by aristus 17y ago
Good work Patrick. I'd point out another, tricky source of failure: crappy dns hosting. It's worth it to buy dedicated dns hosting from two different providers. The cost is about 50 bucks per year.
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by aristus 17y ago
Hey -- very good questions. This article was a broad overview, and I wanted to get across the fundamental "physics" of concurrency more than specific solutions. Where I talked about solutions it was to illustrate how those principles operat
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by aristus 17y ago
I dunno. As an experiment I turned off RSS on my blog. So far one (1) person has mentioned it. I get less than 5% of traffic from RSS readers, and those are people following HN or Reddit's RSS, not mine.
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by aristus 17y ago
How much sense does it make to use one search engine's traffic to gauge usage of another's? Anyone with ask.com as their home page / default is not counted. Hmm. I just checked with quantcast, and the graphs are similar: http://www.quantca
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by aristus 17y ago
I happen to agree, funnily enough. I only talked about the extreme ends of the spectrum. I suspect that C/A systems have a natural place, say, up to datacenter-sized systems. After that they founder on latency and partitions. The big thing
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by aristus 17y ago
I don't know much about Google Go (or coroutines, for that matter), but from the description it sounds like you are correct.
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by aristus 17y ago
http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/dismal-guide-to-concurrency.... The original link is viewable without needing to be logged-in to FB, as far as I can tell.
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by aristus 17y ago
I like it. We have a winner. Thank you! "Think of a parliment that must have more than half of members present in order to hold a vote. If too many can't make it, say because a flood washes out the bridge, a quorum can't be formed and busi
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by aristus 17y ago
You've got a good point, and I'm not satisfied with that section. Can you think of a real-world example of a network partition? Maybe a parade that bisects the city?
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by aristus 17y ago
In California the assets of a corporation are taxed I believe, so the stuff you buy with the investment has a liability.
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by aristus 17y ago
They can be helpful, if only by exposing the real meat of a debate by looking at the issues though different lenses.
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Steampunk, Progress, and You(carlos.bueno.org)
16 points by aristus 17y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 17y ago
It's probably to do with differences in scale. At the LAN level, he's right: partitioning is rare and C/A might make the most sense. At the WAN level, partitioning is a fact of life. There are at least two problems to solve on opposite ends
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by aristus 17y ago
Emacs and screen. Git is very nice. Charles Proxy is wonderful for inspecting HTTP traffic. Pixelmator is very good for quick graphics. It's on par with Photoshop 5 (version 5 from like 1998, not CS-Whatever).
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by aristus 17y ago
Just a ping: ordered. We shall see.

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